Metal

There’s a tiny little park in St. Paul that the neighbors seem to like. The problem is the city just found out about it. Now the so-called Peoples’ Art Park on Wells Street will be demolished as the city said some of the walls and sculptures are dangerous.

A Minnesota company that recycles metal to make aluminum alloy pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to failing to report pollutant emissions to the EPA and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), the Department of Justice said. .

For years, the Rhode Island teams in the American Legion Baseball league — the oldest nationwide youth program — played with aluminum bats that make the characteristic crack of America’s game sound more like a dull clang.